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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
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We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
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We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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